Good question Donna, and good answer Don!
A former chairman of the Danish Club in London
mentioned in a talk years ago some correspondence
with the Danish tenor Lauritz MELCHIOR. I
mentally transcribed and remember now his
pronunciation, in Danish-English context, as:
"Lowrds Melsher, rode a leddar, to the Danish
Klup".
My own oldest ancestral name RITZAU turns up,
spelt as pronounced, in United States records
variously as RITZOW and RITZO (these two
typically in Wisconsin and Illinois, but also in
"Low German" areas of Germany, the Netherlands,
and Denmark), as RITSO (also in UK and
Australia), and as RITZEAU, RITZAW, and RITZAUR,
this last often related to surname RITZAUER, but
either way perhaps sounded as in "Ritzawr and his
idears".
This is not counting frequent misreadings of manuscript "u" to make RITZAN
There are some echoes of the Midwestern and Low
German distribution of some of my RITZAU
variants, in the LDS records of MELGER pointed to
by Barbara. (I am not suggesting or looking for
any family connection).
A Google search for [melger melchior] produces
several pages decisively correlating some MELGER
names with MELCHIOR, including a Melcher Family
Genealogy Forum.
I am sorry, David Müldner, that we have not helped answer your question!
Es tut mir leid, David Müldner, dass wir nicht geholfen haben,
Ihre Frage zu beantworten!
Bob Persson
Barbara Stewart wrote 13/2/09
Donna,
It could go either way, I suppose. However, the LDS shows 437 names of
Melchior and 175 of Melger.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
Barbara
Donald Roddy wrote 13 February 2009
Donna,
It's quite possible, especially if it was written by an American census
taker who might have been inclined to write the name as he THOUGHT he heard
it rather than take the time to ask..
Don Roddy
tyke wrote 13 February 2009
Can Melchior and Melger be the same name only spelled differently?
Donna
David Müldner wrote 4 February 2009
Liebe Liste ich habe folgende Daten einer Person und bin eigentlich auf der
Suche seine Lebensdaten und Name
NN MELCHIOR; 1857 und 1861 Staatsanwalt zu Iserlohn, zugleich für das
Kreisgericht in Lüdenscheid, 1866 zu Hamm (1868 Justizrath).
Quelle: KPS 1857, 1861, 1868.
mit besten Dank im voraus und freundlichen Grüssen
David Müldner
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